Vista - okay, so I am a little stupid...

I am trying to set up a home network with my old XP desktop and a new Vista
laptop. I've been thru the wizards, and I can reliably connect to the
internet wirelessly though can't access the desktop's files. What did I do
wrong?

Thanks!

That is a very common issue, mdavidm, as Vista is not plug & play on the
existing XP home network. You'll need to run thru this very helpful link from
another thread here ("only way to connect to vista with xp"):

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx

And there are many other threads with more info. than is efficient to copy
here. There are configurations in Norton AV/Firewall you have to set also
(if you have that suite.)

T

"mdavidm" wrote:

> I am trying to set up a home network with my old XP desktop and a new Vista
> laptop. I've been thru the wizards, and I can reliably connect to the
> internet wirelessly though can't access the desktop's files. What did I do
> wrong?
>
> Thanks!